School: Ceapach an tSeagail
- Location:
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Monacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0062
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- (continued from previous page)hard and cold it would keep it down To keep a swelled under a waterfall would put it down.For a soar throat hot salt is a great cure.
- We have a churn at home. It is a mashine churn. It is a seven gallon churn. It is about eight inches wide at the bottom and a foot and a half at the top. The sides are round There are diffrent parts in a churn The lid the dash and the handle. It is about twenty five years old There is a hole in the centre of the churn for the handle to go through The dash is a square piece of wood shaped like a window. The dash is moved up and down when churning.We know when it is churned small grains of butter would appear on the lid.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ethel Mullarkey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonaree, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Margret Monaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toormore, Co. Galway
